Ian Ayres

Ian Ayres is a lawyer and an economist. He is the William K. Townsend Professor at Yale Law School, the Anne Urowsky Professorial Fellow in Law, and a Professor at Yale's School of Management. His work uses economic theory as a tool to generate counterintuitive legal conclusions in areas such as contract and antidiscrimination law. His research covers empiricism-from taxi-cab tipping and kidney transplantation to car theft and reckless sex-demonstrating the real-world relevance of his theoretical conclusions. He teaches antitrust, civil rights, commercial law, contracts, corporations, corporate finance, law and economics, property, and quantitative methods.